Dr. David Guzman received his veterinary degree from the University of Leon, Spain, in 2002. He practiced exotic and small animal medicine in Spain and the UK until 2004. Dr. Guzman completed an Exotic Animal Medicine and Surgery Internship at Tufts University in 2005 and a Zoological Medicine Residency combined with a Master’s in Veterinary Medical Sciences at Louisiana State University in 2008. He served as a clinical instructor in Zoological Medicine at the University of Wisconsin until 2010, when he joined the Companion Exotic Animal Medicine & Surgery Service at UC Davis, where he is now a Professor of Clinical Companion Zoological Animal Medicine and Surgery. Dr. Guzman has a special research interest in therapeutics and infectious diseases, and a strong clinical interest in endoscopy, soft tissue and orthopedic surgery, and oncology in exotic animals. He has published over 140 peer-reviewed articles, 30 book chapters and he is the editor of two textbooks (Self-Assessment and Color Review of Avian Medicine and Surgery, 2nd ed. Taylor & Francis Group and Veterinary Clinics of North America Exotic Animal Practice: Exotic Animal Oncology. Elsevier). He is board certified in avian and in small mammal medicine and surgery by the European College of Zoological Medicine and is also board certified by the American College of Zoological Medicine